How Fish Get Away With Being Colorful

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Coral reef fish get away with being colorful thanks to a weird quirk of underwater optics. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Visual resolution: the ability to see fine spatial detail SUPPORT MINUTEEARTH ************************** If you like what we do, you can help us!: - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Our merch: http://dftba.com/minuteearth - Our book: https://minuteearth.com/books - Share this video with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) CREDITS ********* Kate Yoshida | Script Writer, Narrator and Director Arcadi Garcia i Rius | Illustration, Video Editing and Animation Nathaniel Schroeder | Music MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info OUR STAFF ************ Lizah van der Aart • Sarah Berman • Cameron Duke Arcadi Garcia i Rius • David Goldenberg • Melissa Hayes Alex Reich • Henry Reich • Peter Reich Ever Salazar • Leonardo Souza • Kate Yoshida OUR LINKS ************ Youtube | https://youtube.com/MinuteEarth TikTok | https://tiktok.com/@minuteearth Twitter | https://twitter.com/MinuteEarth Instagram | https://instagram.com/minute_earth Facebook | https://facebook.com/Minuteearth Website | https://minuteearth.com Apple Podcasts| https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minuteearth/id649211176 REFERENCES ************** Caves, E. M., & Johnsen, S. (2021). The sensory impacts of climate change: bathymetric shifts and visually mediated interactions in aquatic species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1949), 20210396. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0396 Hodge, J. R., Santini, F., & Wainwright, P. C. (2020). Colour dimorphism in labrid fishes as an adaptation to life on coral reefs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287(1923), 20200167. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0167 Marshall, J.N. (2000). Communication and camouflage with the same ‘bright’ colours in reef fishes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 355(1401), 1243-1248. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2000.0676 Marshall, J. (2017). Vision and lack of vision in the ocean. Current Biology, 27(11), R494-R502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.03.012 Marshall, N. J., Cortesi, F., de Busserolles, F., Siebeck, U. E., & Cheney, K. L. (2019). Colours and colour vision in reef fishes: Past, present and future research directions. Journal of Fish Biology, 95(1), 5-38. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13849 Wilkins, L., Marshall, N. J., Johnsen, S., & Osorio, D. (2016). Modelling colour constancy in fish: implications for vision and signalling in water. Journal of Experimental Biology, 219(12), 1884-1892. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.139147